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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!dyer
- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Are Gay Men Richer, Really?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.200906.23519@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <C1A4Az.5EC@panix.com> <mattm-250193092916@mcmelmon.apple.com> <77557@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:09:06 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <77557@apple.apple.COM> richard@Apple.COM (a flying squirrel) writes:
- >Clay Bond taught me, albeit indirectly, that sometimes it pays to read
- >past what appears, on the surface, to be hateful and vulgar.
-
- Clay Bond was never vulgar, or stupid, for that matter.
-
- >Several
- >years ago I would have reacted very differently to Matthew's contributions.
- >He is not for everyone; but then, who _is_ on this forum? There are gems
- >to be found amongst all that hard, black coal.
-
- With Melmon, what you see is what you get, mostly. And that's spite
- without much intelligence or wit to make him worth reading. Believe me,
- you're not doing him any favor by comparing him to Clay Bond.
-
- >I do not read postings by people who are clearly homophobic or have thinly-
- >veiled agendas of homophobia. Those people are in my kill file. We all
- >have our hot buttons, and *X*, bless him, can push many common ones
- >simultaneously in one posting. I mostly laugh out loud at his rantings,
- >because I believe that he usually is not serious or hateful.
-
- Yeah, I just _loooved_ his comments on gay men who like sex.
- The little fucker was a real stitch. Doesn't this moron know
- that he's among people for whom this isn't an abstract matter?
-
- >Strong opinions? Sure. Do I agree with everything he says? No. But
- >hardly reasons to kill-file him. And he really _is_ funny at times.
-
- Be sure to point those times out.
-
- >My only regret is that he seems to have difficulties with people I feel
- >genuine friendship towards. But it is no different in my "real" (non-email)
- >life; there are people I simply do not mix together in social situations.
- >So?
-
- Yeah, well, be sure to keep this in mind if you're having an event
- the next time. I can't imagine anyone being particularly interested
- in actually meeting Melmon unless he had a personality transplant first.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
-